Monday, December 12, 2005

fancy cookies

I got a Silpat for my birthday, so yesterday I baked fancy cookies. Cinnamon chocolate cigarettes: paper thin cookies rolled into a cylinder with one end dipped in chocolate. I can't show you a picture because I seem to have misplaced the battery charger for my digital camera, but they are pretty. I have plans for more fancy cookies, tuiles and such. The Silpat is a genius thing, and I highly recommend getting one. There was no sticking! That's about all I have to say about the fancy cookie baking, except that it made me feel very skilled, like a much better baker than I actually am.

the trick for me was the Silpat. I would have made a complete mess of them otherwise. And they were a bit hot when I rolled them, but I think I killed a few fingertip nerve endings back in high school when I was a fry cook at Taco Bell (before all their food came in plastic packaging).